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SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

Did you know that the word "Bitcoin" comes from an old mining phrase? A story about lies, squibs, hoaxes and tall tales in 19th century frontier journalism.

On the latest “Sound School,” listen to the story Champika Fernando produced at a Traveling Workshop this summer in Amherst, MA. And be sure to listen for the surprising maneuver they pulled at the end of the piece. transom.org/2025/its-mag... @prx.org

Year 6 Episode 1 : walking a big circle around the mountain where the radio comes from. Wild fire, Mark Twain-penned real-estate battle and a suicidal Frank Sinatra all make an appearance.

Listened to this new Scott Carrier piece on a dark walk up the mountain. Highly recommended. Really excited for this new @transom.bsky.social series

Year 6 • Prologue out now

year 6 update

The acoustics of a snow storm!

An aspen grove in the Jarbidge Wilderness, Nevada, USA in Autumn 2019 – by @thewind.org fieldrecordings.xyz/2025/11/30/a...

I’ll be at resonate this weekend if anybody wants to say hey! Will have a bag of cassettes

Won Gold for "Best Writing" www.signalaward.com/winners/#202...

Had a piece on All Things Considered yesterday! All about Nevada's official state drink (as of June), the Picon Punch. @npr.org

Well One Battle After Another was as good as everyone says, if not better

On the insane inaccuracy of AI and a new realization of information dystopia… In addition to the show, I pick up freelance work to pay the billz. Most of it is audio editing, mixing, engineering, etc.. but one gig is writing SEO articles for a big brand company.

In early 2021, the federal government approved a new Lithium Mine in northern Nevada. Almost immediately, a protest camp went up in the sagebrush about 65 miles north of Winnemucca, the nearest sizable town.

Hey y'all, I've been directing a new youtube show called Giant Leap, shot in Taylor Wilson's nuclear lab. If that sounds like your thing, check it out!

When I was a kid in rural Nevada there was a 24-hr diner in the local casino. After punk shows in high school (or just any night) we'd go there and drink coffee and eat hash browns in the smoking section (still legal in NV as of mid 2000s)

[Chicken cowboy billboard wreck, B-80, Elko, Nevada. 1991] www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

When I called him he appeared, at the crossroads, flat dirt beneath a heavy half moon. The night was clear, as was my intent. I didn’t need to explain my position, he simply offered the deal and I took it.

Snow fully melted off the meadow. Spiders gone, now ants in the tree where I sit against to read. Fairly friendly, large black ants, don’t seem to bite. Warbler, Robin, song sparrow now

Great time performing this week at the Martin hotel in Winnemucca, Nevada. Love it when the honorarium includes a steak

So excited for this

The Divided Dial @onthemedia.bsky.social is back for Season 2!!!!! This season reporter Katie Thornton is looking at the battle underway in the world of shortwave radio. Pirate broadcasters, rw militia, cults, and Wall Street bros all make an appearance. Listen: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

The snow’s melting off the meadow, Hundreds of spiders below, running around in the occasional sunlight

New episode of The Wind: thewind.org/episodes/the... #video #blueskyvideo #silverlake #losangeles skylight.social flashesapp.bsky.social #videopost #podcast

I recently held a sound hike in Winnemucca, Nevada.

A few years ago, a punk house in Los Angeles woke up to a demolition notice taped near their front gate.

The new White House press release going after NPR and PBS links multiple times to Media Research Center, a right-wing group which was founded by Brent Bozell, Trump's nominee for Ambassador to South Africa. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Postcards from The Wind have been airing on The World Here's one about a lovely experience at a punk house in Curitiba Brazil

A whole lot of news, folks. Gonna post it as a thread:

Coming soon!

If you don't listen to David Weinberg's Random Tape yet... you should! And not just because the new ep features Audio Flux, @jatomic.bsky.social, @reverendjohn3000.bsky.social and an exquisite Circuit 04 fluxwork: Rodeo, by Dennis Gaens (Plus a plug for Circuit 05 🙌) 🐂🤖🐂🤖🐂🤖🐂🤖🐂🤖🐂🤖🐂🤖🐂🤖🐂🤖🐂🤖

at On Air Fest this year we hosted the second installment of Retracks, which invites audio producers to re-imagine radio/audio pieces and cover them live. I performed a version of The Green River by Scott Carrier. We'll be hosting another in LA next month, more details shortly. #onairfest

Henry Real Bird is an indigenous cowboy poet from Garryowen, Montana and his work is always one of the biggest highlights of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

A quick stop at the ghost town mentioned in Year 05 Episode 01, “Alash Ensemble in Winnemucca, Nevada”

the creek by my desk #naturesounds #ice #video @skylight.social @flashesapp.bsky.social #videopost

Outside Roswell, New Mexico a binaural recording of Sandhill Cranes. #naturesounds #binaural #roswell #newmexico #video #blueskyvideo @skylight.social @flashesapp.bsky.social #birds #birdsound #birdwatching

I'll be performing at On Air fest this year with Retracks. Will anybody here be there?

Welcome new audio friends. Here’s a starter pack I made a while back: go.bsky.app/Qr6Xr1i

Well, there's a lot of obviously terrible stuff happening... We don't make podcasts fast enough to respond to anything in real time, but you might get something out of (re)listening to some of our older episodes www.futureecologies.net/goatwalker on the origin of the sanctuary city movement, + more

Klamath River sound pre-dam removal

I'll be at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering next week

A while back I became obsessed with Yodeling. During my deep dive into the yodel hole, I found voice breaks from all over the world. Hawaiian cowboys, Vaqueros, Swiss herders, African hunters